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Silver lid. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Silver lid. Detail. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Silver lid
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 160
- Date
- First half of 6th c BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Uşak, Archaeological Museum, 1.4.89
- Museum Inventory No.
- 1.4.89
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Uşak 1.4.89
- Material
- Silver
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Metal Vessel
- Site
- Basmacı Tumulus
- Description
- The convex circular lid has a short horizontal rim, slightly upturned at the edge, and a swiveling ring handle. In the center of the lid is a rosette of 25 petals, encircled by a pine-cone decoration that extends in 11 increasingly larger rings as far as the rim. The pattern appears in reverse on the inside. The center of the rosette is a hemispherical knob, riveted to the lid, to which are soldered both ends of a vertical semicircular ring that holds the swiveling ring handle (Özgen and Öztürk 1996). Diameter 0.213 m, diameter of handle 0.037 m, weight 466.89 g.
- Comments
- See Also
- Baughan, “Burial Customs”; Özgen, “Lydian Treasure”.
- Bibliography
- Özgen and Öztürk 1996, no. 227.
- Author
- İÖ